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Topic: From Agora Forum to SMF (Read 39991 times)

WillemC

I got a question which I haven't seen on this forum yet.I have a Joomla 1.5.9 website, with the Agora Forum. I'm totally not satisfied with the Agora Forum because of the bugs in it.

Now I was wondering, is it possible for me to install this forum in my ftp and transfer the users (they are in my Joomla section) to this forum (perhaps even also the topics, but I guess that ain't going to work)

If I install this forum in my FTP, will it give problems with my Agora forum, or can I install it and start making everything work and finally transfer to this forum.

Thanks in advance, and if this question is allready asked, eventhoug I couldn't find it, just give me a link to it.

I just have modified the FireBoard converter to convert my Agora forum to SMF.It works for Agora 2.x and 3.x as it appears. However it lacks some features like transfering avatars. I didn't need that, so no code for it.All instructions from the Fireboard converter apply as well as the patch to allow SMF use Joomla-generated password hashes.

WillemC

open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/www/vhosts/.../httpdocs/SMFForum../../../configuration.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/.../httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/../httpdocs/SMFForum/convert.php on line 544

I have searched the internet, and found out that it has to do with security. They aren't in the same folder.But I wonder how I can solve this, while the agora forum is in /components/com_agora (it's an extension) while I installed the SMF forum in httpdocs/SMFForum.

What to do now? I really would like this to work.

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ThorstenE

have you tried your joomla directory as path for the fireboard installation? the converter tried to find the configuration.php from Joomla without luck. I believe the path to Joomla/Agora wasn't specified right.

That means that your database user does not have permissions to that table.Give your host the that error (unmodified ofcourse), and they can help you through granting that database user access it needs.

From what I understand you can transfer the forum, but are going to have a very very hard time keeping all of the user information in place. One idea I have heard includes running disaster recovery[nofollow] as a solution for recovering files that have been 'lost in translation.' I wish you the best of luck and would recommend taking every step necessary.

Problem: SELECT command denied to userInfo: The cause of this error is that SMF and Software X are in separate databases and the SMF database user does not have access to Software X's database.Fix: If your host has cPanel you can add the SMF database user to Software X's database. If your host does not have cPanel you can contact them with regards on how to accomplish this. As well as a last resort, what you can do is reinstall SMF in the same database as Software X.

Whats not sinking in is that, ok ..

SMF data has now been transfered into the root joomla database 'joomla1'

settings.php in in SMF have been changed to look at the root database (so SMF is no longer in its own DB)

SMF works fine so im thinking that all the addresses are correct.

but the converter is looking at 2 bits of info in the same DB so why can it not access the data?

What steps do i have to do to make sure that greenair_joomla1 user is allowed access to its own DB?

I know this all sounds very thick, but after now 2 days of going over and over, im very confused.